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Joyce Carol Oates

"Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child."

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"Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child."

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Amber Hurdle

"They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold."

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"Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family."

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"It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters."

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"Children observe everything with caution."

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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."

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"Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see."

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"Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months."

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"Children are the most fearless souls on earth."

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"The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable."
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"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."
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"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."
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"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."
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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
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"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible."
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"How exhausted I am suddenly!-though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling-almost-exhilarated."
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"It is the most horrific thought-my husband died among strangers."
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"He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life."
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